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it is evident that the sea-level could not have been much more 
than 8 feet higher when the interment took place, without 
occasionally submerging and damaging the cemetery. Unless the 
high-tide limits were several feet lower, it is not likely that 
people who paid such respect to their dead would select an 
exposed beach as the final resting-place of their friends. 
The hypothesis that the formation of the 25-feet raised beach 
on the west of Scotland was not completed till about the beginning 
of the Bronze Age was first suggested to me some years ago by the 
discovery of five bronze axes of the flat type (fig. 5), while work- 
Fig. 5. — Five Bronze Celts found together at the “ Maidens,” 
Ayrshire. (|). 
men were excavating the foundations of buildings on the sea-shore 
near Culzean Castle. These axes — which were hound together by a 
strong bronze wire, and had the remarkable peculiarity of being 
graduated in size — evidently formed the £ kit of tools 5 of a 
Bronze Age workman. They were lying in a crevice beneath a 
ledge of rock, against which were heaped up a few feet of gravel. 
The spot was about 100 yards from the sea-shore, and 25 feet 
above present high-water mark. In recording the discovery ( Proc . 
S.A. Scot ., vol. xvii. p. 436), I suggested, as an explanation of 
